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Description: | A cast copper-alloy handle for a knife, razor or other tool. The handle terminates in an zoomorphic, bovine head in the round. The head has curved horns, one of which is broken, and the other may be bent out of shape. The head is well made and faceted, with a groove for the mouth. The snout and top of the head is decorated with groups of punched dots, although corrosion, particularly on the top of the head, obscures this decoration slightly. The animal's neck is decorated with linear incisions and punched ring and dots on both sides. At the attachment end the handle has a layer of ferrous corrosion, indicating that it was attached to a tool with an iron tang, probably a knife. Where the object has not been affected by ferrous or copper corrosion it has a smooth deep green patina, and this patina, together with the zoomorphic style and decoration on the object is suggestive of a late Iron Age to Roman date. The handle measures 49.91 mm long, 7.48 mm wide and weighs 21.7 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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